Long Term Care/Home Health Care Aide

Nursing assistants make valuable contributions in providing health care. Nursing assistants are trained to care for people who are ill or need help in caring for themselves. The care given is always under the guidance and supervision of licensed health care providers such as nurses or physicians. The competencies needed to successfully complete the objectives for this course are identified from the skill standards produced by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education’s Testing Division for the Health Certification Project of the Oklahoma State Department of Health using the DACUM process. Students may exit from the course after obtaining Long Term Care aide certification, or may remain for the entire course and test for Home Health Aide.

Safety for the Long Term Care /Home Health Assistant

This course will provide instruction to enable the student will provide for the safety needs of clients/residents.

Introduction to Long Term Care /Home Health Assistant

Nursing assistants make valuable contributions in providing health care. Nursing assistants are trained to care for people who are ill or need help in caring for themselves. The care given is always under the guidance and supervision of licensed health care providers such as nurses or physicians. The competencies needed to successfully complete the objectives for this course are identified from the skill standards produced by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education’s Testing Division for the Health Certification Project of the Oklahoma State Department of Health using the DACUM process. Students may exit from the course after obtaining Long Term Care aide certification, or may remain for the entire course and test for Home Health Aide.

Role of the Nursing Assistant in Home Health Care

The student will identify and determine appropriate responses that define the scope and practice of a nurse assistant in the home health environment

Consumer Rights, Ethical & Legal Issues Affecting the Nursing Assistant in Home Health Care

The student will identify appropriate responses that protect and promote the Home Health Care client's rights.

Safety in Home Health Care

The student will provide for client safety in the home environment

Communication in Home Health Care

The student will communicate effectively with clients, families and co-workers.

Meeting Basic Human Needs for Clients in Home Health Care

The student will promote client independence and demonstrate psychosocial care skills.

Role of the Nursing Assistant in Long Term Care

The student will identify and determine appropriate responses that define the scope and practice of a nurse assistant in Long Term Care/Home Health

Basic Human Needs for Residents/Clients

This course will provide knowledge and skills to assist the student to promote client/resident independence and demonstrate psychosocial care skills.

Infection Control for Long Term Care Assistant

This course will provide knowledge and skill in order ofr the student to demonstrate infection control measures for specific pathogens.

Resident/Client Mobility, Positioning and Transfer

This course will provide knowledge to enable the student to transfer, ambulate and position residents/clients safely.

Basic Nursing Skills

This course will provide opportunities for the student to demonstrate basic nursing skills in the LTC/HH setting.

Supervised Clinical Experience in Long Term Care Assistant

The student will demonstrate skills and knowledge learned in classroom and laboratory when in supervised clinical experience.

Care for the Patient with Dementia/Alzheimer's Diseases

This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills in order for the student to exhibit special considerations when caring for clients/residents with Alzheimer’s/Dementia.

Death and Dying

This course will provide knowledge to enable the student to perform special care procedures for residents/clients exhibiting symptoms of impending death.

Normal and Abnormal Body Structure and Function

The student will distinguish between normal and abnormal body structure and function and recognize age-related changes in body functions/structures.

Special Skills for the Home Health Aide

This course will build on the skills for the LTC Aide. Additional skills specific for the Home Health Aide will introduced and demonstrated.

Role of the Nursing Assistant in LTC/HH

The student will identify and determine appropriate responses that define the scope and practice of a nurse assistant in Long Term Care/Home Health.

Long Term Care/Home Health Care Aide

This course is a combination of the LTC and HHC career majors. See course development guides of individual courses for competencies.